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Yokoi Kids Volume 1 now available as a PDF

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Published: May 4, 2025 18:54

You can now download a PDF of Yokoi Kids Volume 1 for a suggested $3 donation over at yokoikids.itch.io/volume-1 . It even includes a BONUS PAGE that Rick put together in a matter of minutes. Volume 2 is still very available. So pick that up while it still…

Sumo Fighter: Some Good Ideas Gone Wrong – Peter Plevritis

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Published: May 4, 2025 14:05

Big thanks to Rick, Nolen, Ian, and the rest of the YK for allowing me to select another game. In the past, I had selected games which I had a personal connection to from my youth. This time around, I selected something completely different and new to me,…

May 2025: Megalit (1992)

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Published: May 1, 2025 13:42

It’s May and the boys-in-the-backroom, Rick specifically, have picked out this month’s game. We’re playing Megalit! I’m enjoying this chapter of our Yokoi KIds journey as we pull some true obscurities. This is from a past era when folks were puzzle game…

April 2025 – Sumo Fighter (1993)

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Published: April 1, 2025 17:24

Good April to you! The stores are full of chocolate eggs, generic brand jelly beans no one likes, and those marshmallow birds that, if you do like them, will get you judged (so I’m keeping my mouth shut). Our game this month was picked by Pete Plev, who…

April 2025 : Speedy Gonzales (1993)

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Published: April 1, 2025 13:20

Spring has sprung! Well…sorta. It’s when life springs back up after being buried and dormant for months. Maybe that’s why Nolen picked this rotting game. We played it back in 2019 and it was collectively decided it was a stinker. Here’s what Nolen has to…

Pre-order Yokoi Kids Volume 2

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Published: March 6, 2025 14:07

Wow! Look at that beautiful cover by Michael Sweater and Steve Thueson! The second Yokoi Kids zine*, Yokoi Kids Volume 2 is available now for pre-order. It features over thirty contributors covering twenty five Game Boy games. This one is a benefit for Out…

March 2025: Bomberman GB (1998)

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Published: March 2, 2025 03:15

Time Marches on… see what I did there? It’s March! We got a new game to keep us all occupied. We’re playing Bomberman GB as picked By Edgard. He sez: Bomberman GB on the Game Boy, I’ve always loved Bomberman on every console. His little face, the cute…

February 2025: Mercenary Force (1990)

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Published: February 4, 2025 02:23

Surprise! It’s February! That means it’s Black History Month. When I’m not playing Game Boy or conspiring with the Backroom Boys I’m often listening to, or mixing, house music. Every year I like to reflect on how house is black, queer music that was built…

I Had a Nice Trip – Shayne

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Published: January 29, 2025 14:39

Putting together the money for a complete copy of Trip World on short notice wasn’t in the cards this time, so I broke and bought Trip World DX on Switch (which has both the original and DX versions). The graphics and sound are beautiful in this game, the…

They Forgot to Make a Game – Peter Plevritis

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Published: January 23, 2025 19:35

I am not a collector, certainly not for items that do not have personal meaning to me. I had never heard of Trip World prior to it being named as the game for this month. The quick bit of research I did showed that it’s rare and valuable, that it’s a…

Take a Trip to This World – D’Arcy Briggs

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Published: January 12, 2025 14:56

Trip World might just be one of the coolest little games you’ve never played. It never had an official NA release until recent ports and the new DX version, so it was one I never saw growing up and one that was out of my price range when I started ‘retro’…

January 2024: Trip World (1993)

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Published: January 2, 2025 22:27

It’s January 2nd which means we all have to start doing stuff again. I love Garbage Time at the end of the year as much as anyone, but my internal calendar is all out of sorts! I keep thinking it’s Monday, not Thursday. ANYWAY, I mostly remembered it was…